Intestinal Flu
What Is Intestinal Flu?
So, you have heard of avian flu, human flu but do you know
what is intestinal flu? Well, the intestinal flu or stomach
flu or the Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is one and the same.
The intestinal flu had its name from the similarity of the
symptoms, such as running nose in the flu, running bowels
in the intestinal flu.
The Symptoms Of The Intestinal Flu
Fortunately, given the aggravation resulted from the intestinal
flu, it has no other symptoms besides loose motions. There
are no tests to be done because there is no symptoms, no infection,
no inflammation, nothing at all. The IBS is the result of
a change in the way how your body functions. You might be
surprised to learn that the ‘trigger’ for the
intestinal flu is in the brain instead of in the intestines.
It appears that the brain increases the sensitivity of the
large intestine and the bowels causing it to cramp and hence
result in diarrhea. You need to know that there is no reason
for this, other than that the brain sent it an impulse to
do so. The IBS works on the memory of any such a previous
stomach trauma, including dysentery, abdominal surgery, food
poisoning, etc and given the mental depression trigger, it
will activate the same symptoms in the body, though there
would be no untoward evidence of anything going amiss.
The fact that the IBS starts in the head, has never stopped
the researchers looking up for an answer to this peculiarity.
Fortunately, the intestinal flu tends to respond to medicines
and it can be checked pretty fast. However, the trigger being
in the head, you can never say when and what might activate
it again. Prevention can be best by avoiding any emotional
trauma which will remind the system about the gut problems
and the pain involved therein.
Keep in mind that, this is actually physical disorder triggered
by the brain. It has nothing to do with what you eat and how
you eat. It cannot be spread though any virus or infection.
Therefore, you can do precious little from outside.
Almost the same as heart attack, this is triggered in the
mind. Since it has not yet been found what and how exactly
the brain coordinated this trigger, there are several research
studies which point to mental trauma.
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